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#40 - Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Dan Jones on His Two Tours of Duty
#40 - Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Dan Jones on His Two Tours of Duty
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- #40 - Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Dan Jones on His Two Tours of Duty · 2 h 16 minA conversation with my father, Chief Warrant Officer Dan Jones, on his two tours in Vietnam flying Huey and Cobra helicopters. For his service, he was awarded two Distinguished…
- #39 - Douglas Gillette on 'King, Warrior, Magician, Lover' · 1 h 1 minIn this episode, I speak with Douglas Gillette, co-author of King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. Published in 1990, the book…
- #38 - James Howard Kunstler on The Geography of Nowhere · 1 h 18 minIn this episode, I speak with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise And Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, about the decline of America’s…
- #37 - Jacob Siegel on The Information State · 1 h 0 minJacob Siegel is a writer and editor at Tablet and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control. A U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan…
- #36 - The Forgotten Amendment · 38 minThe first proposed amendment to the Constitution was not about speech, religion, or guns. It was about the size of the House of Representatives—and if it had passed, Congress…
- #35 - Braver Angels With Co-Founder Bill Doherty · 1 h 25 minCan "Braver Angels" save America? Bill Doherty and I discuss the causes of America's political divide and how Braver Angels is working to bridge it. Bill Doherty is an Emeritus…
- #34 - Joseph Ellis on 'Founding Brothers' · 58 minJoseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers, about the collaboration of America's greatest political generation, which is the focus of this…
- #33 - Mustafa Akyol on The Islamic Jesus · 1 h 34 minMustafa Akyol is a Turkish writer, journalist, and senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he explores the intersection of public…
- #32 - Jeff Gibbs on 'Planet of the Humans' · 1 h 11 minEnvironmentalist and documentary filmmaker Jeff Gibbs joins us to discuss his film Planet of the Humans, which pulls back the curtain on the "green energy" movement to reveal a…
- #31 - A Conversation With Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick · 1 h 27 minJustice Clint Bolick sits on the Arizona Supreme Court, originally appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in 2016. In this episode, Justice Bolick and I discuss the legal system, his…
- #30 - A Molotov Cocktail for Professional Sports · 25 minHappy Independence Day, American listeners! Professional sports in America has become a racket. Taking advantage of patriotic sentiment and our civic duty to be sports fans…
- #29 - Gambling and Other Vices · 35 minSports betting and marijuana have been broadly and rapidly legalized in much of the United States. What have been the consequences thus far and what does the future portend for…
- #28 - Zaid Jilani on Journalism and the War in Gaza · 1 h 1 minZaid Jilani is an American journalist and author of the popular Substack The American Saga. Follow him on X: @ZaidJilani In this episode we discuss the state of journalism and…
- #27 - On the American Civil War: A Conversation With Jeff Shaara · 1 h 19 minJeff Shaara is the author of the American Civil War epics Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. His father, the late Michael Shaara, is the author of The Killer Angels, a…
- #26 - A Conversation With Dr. Iain McGilchrist · 1 h 23 minDr. Iain McGilchrist is the author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things. A psychiatrist by training, Dr. McGilchrist is a leading expert on the brain and…
- #25 - Iain McGilchrist Has a Warning for Our World · 33 minIn his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Dr. Iain McGilchrist paints a picture of our brains and the world in crisis. This…
- #24 - Fentanyl · 49 minThe Fentanyl Project's Brock Bevell and I cruise the streets of Mesa, Arizona to talk with the growing number of fentanyl addicts who have been relegated to the streets. America…
- #23 - David O. Stewart on the Summer of 1787 · 59 minWe sit down with author and historian David O. Stewart about his book The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. How did America get the Constitution it has? What…
- #22 - Angel Oakley and the Perils of Running for Congress as an Independent · 1 h 31 minAngel Oakley is a consummate independent if ever there was one, so why did a political party marshal its resources to intimidate her supporters and ultimately block her from…
- #21 - The Post-Assassination Speech That Wasn't · 23 minBy surviving an assassination attempt, former President Trump had a golden opportunity to have a reset with undecided voters in the 2024 Election. Instead, he delivered another…
